<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16735" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV>Hi Mel,</DIV> <DIV>Grub is a micro operating system with its own cli with command line completion.</DIV> <DIV>As stated before, at the grub prompt:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1- grub > root (hd0,0) At this moment, the disc is mounted</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2-type grub > kernel /boot/TAB this is the TAB key that invokes the command line completion and it will dump the list of possible files including the vmlinuz kernel files, choose the most logical version and complete with a short parameter list, so you should have something like:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>kernel /boot/vmlinuz.... ro root=/dev/hda1 </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>3- do the same for the initrd:</DIV> <DIV>grub> initrd /boot/TAB... with no arguments</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>then the great command:</DIV> <DIV>grub> boot</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bonne chance.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>>>> "Mel Wade" <mel@melwade.com> 2008-11-20 21:45:40 >>><BR></DIV> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000">With only the GRUB prompt how can you determin the version you have?<BR><BR> <DIV class=gmail_quote>2008/11/19 Manoj Kumar <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:manoj.u.kumar@gmail.com">manoj.u.kumar@gmail.com</A>></SPAN><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">>From the grub> prompt, type the following to boot the server<BR>1. grub> root (hdx,y)<BR>where x is the hard disk containing /boot<BR>y is the partition number of /boot<BR>2. grub> kernel /vmlinuz-<version> ro root=<device file name of root partition><BR>type the appropriate kernel to boot & the device file name of root partition<BR>eg.,<BR>grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=/dev/sda2<BR>3. grub> /initrd-<version>.img<BR>type the appropriate initrd version<BR>4. grub> boot<BR><BR>Perform the above 4 steps & see if the server boots. If it boots then open /boot/grub/grub.conf and make the neccessary changes or if the file is missing create one <BR><BR>Thanks <BR>Manoj<BR><BR> <DIV class=gmail_quote>2008/11/19 Mel Wade <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:mel@melwade.com" target=_blank>mel@melwade.com</A>></SPAN><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"> <DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=Wj3C7c>I did some updates and then rebooted the server. Now all I'm getting is a grub prompt. Not sure where to go from here...<BR clear=all><FONT color=#888888><BR>-- <BR>Mel Wade<BR>"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - BF Skinner<BR><A href="http://www.melwade.com/" target=_blank>http://www.melwade.com</A><BR><BR></FONT><BR></DIV></DIV>_______________________________________________<BR>K12OSN mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com" target=_blank>K12OSN@redhat.com</A><BR><A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target=_blank>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A><BR>For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org/" target=_blank>http://www.k12os.org</A>><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>K12OSN mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</A><BR><A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target=_blank>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A><BR>For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org/" target=_blank>http://www.k12os.org</A>><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Mel Wade<BR>"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - BF Skinner<BR><A href="http://www.melwade.com">http://www.melwade.com</A><BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>